idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love, it doesn't matter whether you are black or white or hispanic or asian ornative american or young or old or rich or poor, abled, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it in america if you are willing to try. [ cheers and applause ] i believe we can seize this future together. because we are not as divided as our politics suggest. we are not as cynical as the pundits believe. we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. we all and forever will be the united states of america. and together, with your help and

god's grace, we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on earth. thank you, america. god bless you! god bless these united states. [ cheers and applause ] of course, it was all about the math. you can see the cheering there as obama supporters are cheering. then you can see it in a bit with confetti pouring down and the president's comes out and the vice president's family joins. it was all about the math. 270 was the number of electoral votes needed and that's what they got to. let's go to the magic wall with john and christine. >> cnn was able to call the race a little after 11:15 eastern time, earlier than a lot of people predicted. some people thought we would be counting all night into the wee hours of the morning.

that did not happen. so how did the president put together his victory? christine romans at the magic wall. >> we are talking to you about the swing states. in the end, the president took all of them. here is nevada with its six electoral votes. he took nevada. he took colorado. paul ryan spent a lot of time in colorado really hoping that the republicans have been hoping to get that and they didn't. there's iowa. wisconsin. ohio with its 18. new hampshire. then florida. we are still waiting for. that's how the president got to 303. he needed 270. even though we have not called florida yet, mitt romney can't get over the top. >> right now the president is leading in the vote count in florida by miami-dade county as they suspended counting overnight. they will start counting in a few hours ago. the president is ahead there and could pick that up, too. >> these two states he lost. those are reliably republican

territory until last time when the president turned them. he lost them this time but had all the swing states, 303 electoral votes. >> the president won north carolina by 14,000 votes four years ago. this time it was still pretty close. it was interest that a lot of people thought north carolina would be a blowout for mitt romney. it was not. they didn't call that late, but there could be hope for the democrats in this state. >> he took all the swing states and we are still waiting on florida. >> it's florida. we'll be waiting for a long time. soledad? >> don't pick on florida. the governor's concession speech happened around 1:00 in the morning. he was waiting crunching numbers out of ohio, but that was not in his favor. and so he conceded. here's how his concession speech went. >> this election is over but our principles endure. i believe that the principles upon which this nation was founded are the only sure guide to a resurgent economy and to a

renewed greatness. like so many of you, paul and i have left everything on the field. we have given our all to this campaign. [ cheers and applause ] >> i so wish -- i so wish that i had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction. but the nation chose another leader, and so ann and i join with you to earnestly pray for them and for this great nation. thank you and god bless america! you guys are the best. thank you so much. >> john avalon is joining our panel. ryan liz is a writer for "the new yorker." martin is still here as well. ultimately, i'm forgetting all my friends on this side. >> that's okay. >> i had a piece of pizza and i'm good for the next hour.

>> john, if you had to assess the biggest flaw for the romney campaign, what was it? >> ignoring the center too long in the election. that helped him get momentum when getting traction for a long time, but it was too little, too late. and there were fundamental questions on how much people could trust him with his positions. ali and i saw him in ohio, the damage done by the g-pad they ran. a lot of the republicans will say the problem was that he was not conservative enough. that's stereotypical and not true. when he recentered himself that's when he did best in the polls, but ultimately it was a credibility problem. you saw him in issues across the country and to some extent the republican party has been so -- there's this intense echo chamber talking about momentum. members of the moderate party say, what are you talking about? >> earlier we talked about gay

marriage and said zero for 34 until this -- >> zero for 32 referendum for today. >> this is the first time people got to vote up it, right? >> no, no. there were other referendums in the past as well, but once you start breaking those down, some of those took place in primary elections as opposed to the general election. >> my question is, can this be read as a repudiation of some of the conservative evangelical values? >> it is a tipping point. these marriage initiatives are a sign of the tipping point we have hit in the polls over the last two years. mainly marriage equality has gone down since 2009 and now it passes it. for the first time you are seeing ballot issues pass marriage equality. >> hold on a minute. i think that if you post it the way you just did, it is a repudiation of evangelical conservative values and it makes it that much more difficult to

pass. i don't think it is a repudiation of anything but it is an acceptance of gay marriage. >> you had the catholic bishops come forward and if you look at the exit polling, i guess maybe repudiation is not quite the right word, but it seems the message up sent was on -- >> i'm catholic. we have been ignoring the priest for years. we talk to god and ignore the priest. >> soledad, he's a perfect example. on the issue of contraception and gay marriage, it's a separate conversation. then we talk about congressman paul ryan's budget in the poll. you have bishops and nuns on one side sounding more supportive of republicans. >> but with a vote you have to pick one or the other. >> by the way, bishops aren't always on the same side. >> i understand that. the point i'm making is that when we say how cabinets are going to vote, it is just like any other particular voter, that is what are the issues you

consider to be important right now. we make a mistake -- what's happening across the country is people are making determinations on issues as opposed to the ideological situation. how can mitt romney win in the exit poll, do better on the economy and fight harder for the middle class? president obama. that's an issue-driven thing versus the ideological one. >> two things to that. look at the polls, president obama won the middle class argument which was the ground both candidates essentially agreed to file on. >> who loves the middle class, who is going to hurt the middle class. >> obama won that ground. the other thing is that rich murdoch and todd aiken proved too extreme for women and moderates. >> the election was all about

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welcome back. president obama will stay president obama. re-elected overnight. he'll remain the 44th president of the united states. as for the houses of congress, the house of respectives will remain in republican control and in the senate the democrats will keep the control there. the democrats could increase their governing margin in the senate. there are two races still too close to call, stay with us for that, but first soledad with market reaction. thank you very much. let's go right to ali velshi and christine romans. >> you just heard from andrew stevens that asia was flat. asian markets have closed and european markets opened with u.s. stock futures up a little bit, but i wouldn't be surprised if they turned around. because this is what people expected. they expect what investors expect. they expected the president would be re-elected. >> we don't need a big

distinguish here. barack obama is not bad for business. and democrats are not bad for the stock market. this socialist president got you a double in the stock market in the last four years. but there is something very clear, barack obama and the democrats are bad for very rich people who are all those people who give those surveys to say that he's going to be bad for business. this is an entirely skewed look at the world. so it's not bad for business, actually, it is just bad for rich people because they will pay bigger taxes. that's the problem we have right now. that's why everyone was saying we want mitt romney as president and do better under republicans. it is categorically not true in america that the government does better under republicans. it does better under mixed -- a democratic president and a republican house. >> but you have the sentiment among business, small business owner who is don't like obama care and don't like a president who doesn't talk their language. just last week jeb bush talked about animal spirits, an economic term, and mitt romney was talking about quinn tiles

for income. when business openers hear that they think, they speak my language. when they hear barack obama, there's something rightly or wrongly, that they would do better under -- >> i have to push back on that. i have had a lot of small business openers on my show, i've had folks from the latino chamber of commerce who say, look, most of our customers are small business. president obama says the small businesses won't be impacted as a result? how can we say what most small businesses, we are talking about 97% -- >> it's perception. >> it is also what we say. when we articulate that most of all businesses out there don't like this issue, when you say 97% are making less than $250,000, that's the 3% we are talking about. so we are putting 3% over the 97%. if you want to say most, i say 97% trumps 3. >> ali velshi said barack obama could be bad for the rich

people. >> well, more costly. >> bad if you don't like to pay more money in your taxes, i think that's fair to say, so do you think that's actually going to happen when you look at the balance of power, ryan? >> the republican party has to make a decision on two major issues immediately. the first is are they going to accept a deal from barack obama to get $2.50 in revenue, excuse me, $2.50 in cuts for every dollar in revenue. and number two, they have to make a decision on what to do about immigration because those are the first two issues to happen when congress comes back. john boehner before the election was saying we are staying on our position. we are not going to cancel the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. well, he doesn't have a choice. on december 31st they expire. the white house signaled in every possible way they can to let the tax cuts expire. we will start over next year. and we will redo the tax code. so barack obama has the ball in his court. there is a deadline, december 31st, all of those 2001 and 2003

bush taxes are going away no matter what. i don't see what the republicans' vying power is on that issue. >> on that issue. >> there are a lot of folks who believe that this composition, president obama re-elected, democrats keeping the house, the republicans keeping the senate, is the best scenario for the lame duck session. if either party feels they got the win or a new president, they could kick the can to january. but now there's a real incentive, both parties have essentially been chased by the american people. president obama rerelektded by a lesser margin than in 2008. we need to define the common ground. so i think there's an urgency in the fiscal cliff to have a lame duck session. >> i think president obama's re-election does two things. it frees president obama to be able to work with the republican congress and frees the republican congress to be able to work with the president. >> amen. >> let's take a look at the senate by the numbers, who is

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it was no surprise they were playing "signed sealed delivered" last night at president obama's re-election

speech. now we'll go to john to look at the balance of power. the republicans maintain control of the house of respectives. we are still counting ballots and don't know the exact numerical number, but speaker boehner will remain speaker boehner. as for the senate, the democrats take control of the senate. we don't know the exact margins there as they have a chance to pick up a net gain in governing majority. it depends on two races too close to call. those races are in the states of montana and north dakota. in montana the democratic senator jon tester goes against denny rayberg and rick burg against heidi heitkamp. we may not know the outcome there is for a while. a couple high-profile races to tell you about, missouri and indiana. those seats both won by

democrats. the republicans in the races were the ones that made the controversial comments about rape. in both cases they probably cost republicans the seats. they may have been sure things for republicans without the comments. then maybe the most high-profile race in massachusetts, elizabeth warren becomes the first female senator from the bay state by defeating republican incumbent scott brown. what a whirlwind two years for scott brown. in january of 2010 when he really ignited the republican revolution by winning the seat that had once been held by ted kennedy. now elizabeth warren will be the next senator. >> it will be interesting to see her impact. she's a reformer, that's what she ran on. it will be interesting to see what she brings to congress. >> the thing about elizabeth warren that is interesting is she would never have been running if the republican senators didn't work so hard to block her nomination. who would they rather be dealing

with in the senate? as a senator, they lost big. >> she was extremely tough on tim geithner. she was in the oversight panel. when you go back to look at the testimony, she was nailing the obama administration on housing, on many of those issues, because i had her on my show several times, she was not about hailing this administration. >> they threw her under a the bus a little bit on her nomination. >> a little bit, yeah. >> regardless of party, good for her. she prevailed and she got crushed and now she's going to be a u.s. senator. >> there's a pointed new secretary of state. >> scott brown. he comes back into that. we'll take a look coming up at the black vote, the female vote. they both came out in droves this year helping re-elect the president. the latino vote and our expert of panels are talking about that next.

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good morning. welcome, everybody. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the country. lots to talk about this morning. president obama has won a second term. democrats keep control of the senate, republicans keep control of the house. here's what president obama said in his victory speech. listen. >> despite all our differences, most of us share certain hopes for america's future. we want our kids to grow up in a country where they have access to the best schools and the best teachers. a country that lives up to its legacy as the global leader in technology and discovery and innovation with all the good jobs and businesses that follow. we want our children to live in america that isn't burdened by

debt, that didn't weakened up by inequality, that isn't threat uppu uppu enned by the destruction of a warming planet. we want to pass on a country that's safe and respected and admired around the world. a nation that is defended by the strongest military on earth and the best troops this world has ever known. [ cheers and applause ] but also a country that moves with confidence beyond this time of war to shape a peace that is built on the promise of freedom and dignity for every human being. we believe in a generous america, in a compassionate america, in a tolerant america open to the dreams of an

immigrant's daughter who studies in our schools and pledges to our flag. [ cheers and applause ] to the young boy on the south side of chicago that sees a life beyond a nearby street corner. [ cheers and applause ] to the furniture worker's child in north carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president, that's the future we hope for. that's vision we share. that's where we need to go forward. that's where we need to go. now, we will disagree, sometimes fiercely about how to get there. as it has for more than two

centuries, progress will come in fix and starts. it is not always a straight line. it is not always a smooth path. by itself the recognition of common hopes and dreams won't end all the gridlock or solve all our problems or substitute for the pain-staking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward. but that common bond is where we must begin. our economy is recovering. a decade of war is ending. a long campaign is now over. [ applause ] and whether i earned your vote or not, i have listened to you, i have learned from you, and you have made me a better president.

and with your stories and your struggles, i return to the white house more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead. [ cheers and applause ] tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual. you elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. and in the coming weeks and months i am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together, reducing our deficit, reforming our tax code, fixing or immigration system, freeing ourselves from foreign oil. we've got more work to do.

but that doesn't mean your work is done. the role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. america has never been about what can be done for us, it is about what can be done together. it is a hard and frustrating work of self-government. that's the principal we were founded on. that. >> speech at mccormick place that brought 10,000 people into chicago. you have to believe that party went on all night long. i'm joined now by my early start co anchor zoraida sambolin live this morning from a chicago diner. >> good morning to you. i was at a viewing party last night and there was so much excitement for president obama until, on our air, the numbers

in florida flipped and everybody got freaked out. so i found a couple of people and georgia n particular, to my left. 67 years old, you were there last night at mccormick place. and you actually were volunteering, also. you have been up 24 hours with all the excitement. tell me about it. >> well, it started by volunteering in wisconsin on monday. i went canvassing for obama there and then went yesterday for the party at mccormick place from beginning till end. and just came right here for breakfast, right from there. >> you are 67 years old and i asked you why you voted for obama and did it affect the downturn of the economy? and you say, yes, you did, but you still voted for him. >> i feel that he pulled us back from the brink of disaster.

and it would be totally unrealistic to think that he could solve all the problems he was given in this historic period of time. and he has done so many great things that he has done. >> were you nervous there at mccormick place? >> i was scared but i knew the votes would come in. >> you have been talking a little bit this morning and you are actually a republican. you voted for romney. you are half filipino, half mexican. you are exactly the demographic that the republican party needs but doesn't have. play did you choose romney? >> i just thought that in the past four years it just seems like not enough has convince me. i did vote for obama in '08. and in the past it just seems like nothing really happened that convinced me to do -- maybe

four years wasn't enough, but i just feel that. >> what do you think the republican party has to do in order to bring folks like you into the mix? >> mitt romney just offered a plan that convinced me, that mr. olson will be better with reform, that was the way to go, the way of the future. thank you so much for hanging with us this morning. i know it has been an all-nighter for both of you. i really appreciate it. back to you. thank you. bring me back some bacon. now back to soledad now. let's reintroduce our panelists. you are back in, okay. >> something like that. >> wake up! wake up! >> let's talk a little bit about the way forward, what do you think is happening with some of the problems and the way they can move forward. how do you move forward in the next two or three years.

>> bring us together. this country is deeply divided and the healing needs to set up a specific agenda saying i'll work with the bipart shan framework, game six or bowles-simpson. ly work with you but a bounce plan. maybe on things like immigration reform likely to the top of the list, you are intended to -- we can do this in a bipartisan way, but he has to focus on making his play and taking offense in that regard. >> his first two years he passed a lot of controversial laws with just republican votes. >> because a republican decision strategically -- >> if they do tangle and he breaks up on immigration, he never really presented a proposal and convened the meeting and there we never went

anywhere. right now he had a good plan. he just didn't get to it. >> did you ever see a plant? >> first of all, his destiny is not in his own hands. everything depends on the psychology of the republican party. >> that's a terrible position to be in. >> terrible. and unless the republicans take away with what happened yesterday, if the republicans say it is their number one goal when they defeated bill dloin. put this aside. we'll concentrate on the next deal in 1987 there was a big gap. we didn't defeat this guy, let's get the best deal we can. >> so he has to work to divide congress. his future is not in his own

hands. >> first of all, the revenue for the president is to deal with -- you saw his statement tonight released by a true speaker of the house, more about americans working together. that statement sent out by senator mitch mcconnell was angry, dismissive and not about unifying this country. that's the problem. >> reporter: here's the deal, though, if the president creates a relationship with speaker john boehner and that's also very helpful when vice president biden says i'm working over here to cut a deal. >> on immigration, it is not mcconnell to reach out to. he has to reach out to marco rubio with the republican party looking at this to fix solutions outside the box. he has to reach out to lindsey

graham. >> senator mitch mcconnell is the minority leader. >> if you look at the statistics of the latino vote, i have to imagine they are on board with that. we have to kick up some -- >> there are four things you can get bipartisan cooperation on. immigration, real tax reform because everybody wants it, energy and keep going on the infrastructure bank. he can make this a legacy presidency and that's what both parties were doing. coming up, we'll look at a new cnn projection right after this short break.

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the high-profile house list, you'll recognize the names here. michele bachmann has been re-elected to the sixth congressional district in minnesota. it was a really, really close race against wealthy businessman jim graves. 3,000 votes separating them. michele bachmann is no stranger to close races as she won the last two congressional races by a fairly slim margin, but the district was redrawn to make it safer for her but not safe at all. both candidates spent well over

a million in okts on ads and barely squeaked through by over 3,000 votes. a narrow win for michele bachmann. soledad? you covered a lot of this race and that candidate. >> i have. look, it was a bad night for wingnuts last night, but michele bachmann drawn through. she had her first competitor in jim graves that put up a really good fight. >> 3,000 votes. >> 3,000 votes. and it was amazing, michele bachmann's final ad in the race presented herself as an independent mind thinker and someone to reach across the aisle to solve problems. it was an snl shift. >> talk about fiction. oh, yeah. >> if you want to point fingers at someone creating the crisis that mitt romney faced turning him to the right, michele bachmann. >> brings us back to the fiscal cliff, doesn't it? how you get to some resolution. >> she's going to come back in a much different role than she had before. she's no longer a presidential

candidate. she doesn't have that kind of national voice. she just squeaked by. you think -- >> she has power. >> i spent a lot of time with her last year and she raised more money than a house candidate than anyone in the country. she has a national base of conservative who is love her. >> $14 million in the bank. >> let's go right over to john berman. >> we'll talk about the presidential race on a state we are watching leading up to the election late night last night. it did go for the president last night, but it did end up blue. i'm joined by carol costello in columbus, ohio. it looks a little cold this morning, carol. >> reporter: it is pretty cold, but i'm telling you people here in ohio are happy, john, because ohio's long election night is finally over. now when they watch television they can see cheesy car commercials and they are very, very happy about that. what issue was it that won ohio for obama?

it was the auto industry bailout. people here, especially in the northern and upper half of the state, supported the auto industry because many of them work in the auto industry. they think the bailout helped save their jobs. and talking about attack ads, can you issue one attack ad too many? i think so. and i think the election in ohio proved that. the romney campaign released that ad and judd avalon knows about that saying they are going to move jobs. a lot of voters didn't like being lied to in that particular way. a lot of voters told me that's why they voted. ohio put obama over the top and was a deciding state once again. >> everyone was so concerned about the provisional ballots, would they keep this election hanging on the balance for days, turns out it didn't matter. >> reporter: it didn't matter,

although there were some problems. i talked to a lot of civil rights groups yesterday. they were monitoring the election. and they said a lot of people were turned away because they were forced to use these provisional ballots. they thought their vote wouldn't couldn't anyway and simply did not vote. that's the sad thing. but you're right, in the end, by and large, provisional ballots did not matter one bit. ohio goes obama's way. >> carol costello live in columbus this morning, thank you so much. thank you. let's go to dan yogoff, you have been writing about the impact going throughout the exit polls about catholics and the evangelicals. tell me a little bit about what your interpretation is into what you see. >> sure. it seems to be a stark turnaround from where we were this day in 2004. where it seemed to represent this kind high water mark for christian right influence in american politics. you had evangelicals and other so-called value voters sweeping george w. bush into the resounding second term victory. you had a dozen ballot

initiatives, in most cases, amending state constitutions to ban same sex marriage. and really ushering in the entire new era of banning same sex marriage. and last night we saw the unraveling of all of that. in the face of this catholic church opposition to the obama administration, particularly on contraception and religious liberty, you saw catholics turn out for president obama. he won catholics. in some states like pennsylvania, he won them even though he lost them in 2008. you saw in two states for the first time voters embracing same sex marriage and legalizing same sex marriage. and then you saw sort of the poster children of the christian right, including todd akan in missouri and richard murdoch in indiana. >> those are the local race that is people were watching because they became national stories. >> they embody this hard line on abortion and sort of the christian right came to their side when the republican party

in akin's case abandoned him. you saw both of the candidates defeated last night. so i think what you saw could be described as a kind of repudiation of the christian right agenda, which is so far from where we were just a few years ago. >> i want to ask you about florida, the jewish vote. obama was not playing to it as well as mitt romney was. we don't really have a full settlement in florida but how did that play out? >> the jewish vote is so solidly for the democrats that although he did not achieve the 78% of the jewish vote obama did, like he did in 2008, it did not present a problem for him. what was really interesting, i think, was looking at the evangelical vote in certain states including ohio and colorado. they were all the evangelical leaders who are basically predicting apocalypse if obama was to be re-elected. and what you saw was rank-in-file evangelicals in

states like colorado turned out for president obama by a slide over what they did in 2008. >> i hope there's a lesson for me in this, and that is we stop allowing folks like reverend franklin graham to speak for all christians. it bothers me when we put them on and there's no one opposite him. because look, i'm an evangelical, my wife is an ordained minister, i'm an absolute christian and the beliefs i have don't fit on a pamphlet. you can't define it based on the issue of pro-life and how you're supporting israel. you are seeing people who are christians believing in jesus christ. look, i'm looking at a totality of issues to make a decision based upon my children, education, poverty, all those kind of things. and when we continue to move in, bring one they are specktive. wait a minute, what about -- we

have more christian voices beyond the graphics. >> he makes an important point on the bible, it is not just leviticus. dan has written about this, for the first time we had three of the four people in the top ticket not protestants. talk about trying to form a more perfect union. that's an extraordinary threshhold we crossed but didn't spend a lot of time talking about but it is a remarkable story. >> thank you for putting your piece on cnn.com. we appreciate that. let's go back to john berman. now to a name you'll hear a lot about this week. tammy baldwin made history twice as the first openly gay politician and first woman from wisconsin elected to the u.s. senate. s tommy thompson to tammy baldwin, here's her acceptance speech.

>> i am openly aware that i'll be the first openly gay member. [ cheers and applause ] >> tammy! tammy! tammy! tammy! tammy! tammy! >> but -- but i didn't run, but i didn't run to make history. i ran to make a difference. >> and this race between tammy baldwin and tommy thompson one of the most expensive in the country. the two candidates race raised $20 million combined. that's a lot of money. when we come back, the results heard around the world. global reaction to president obama's big night. stay with us. [ female announcer ] introducing yoplait greek 100.

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welcome back to world reaction now to president obama's re-election. here's a telegram to obama, calls for strengthening. and the prime minister netanyahu wrote this, the straw teenagering alliance between israel is ensuring interests that are vital to the security of israel.

let's get right to zane live in london where the brits are reacting to victory of president obama. hey, zain, good morning. >> reporter: the reaction is phew! that's a relief here. we talked to quite a few people this morning, soledad, and they are saying the united states made the right choice. they said, what president obama needs to do right now is sell the u.s. better to the rest of the world and surprise, surprise, fix the economy. let me show you "the sun." the tabloid paper here captures the mood of some people. they focused on the soccer match results from last night. you've got manchester city, arsenal and then down here, oh, by the way, there was an election. obama and romney. that just gives a sense of this magazine knowing their audience. but this morning people are really interested in the results. on the political side, the british prime minister said

this, we want to kick start the world economy. we want to get a europe/u.s. trade deal. we want to get started and focused on syria, too. online, this is an interesting fact, that the peak of the moment yesterday for the world online was that when networks projected barack obama's win, 327,000 tweets went out at that moment around the world. and on average it is 6,000. so that was pretty awesome. >> zain for us in london. thank you, appreciate it. a huge victory and four more years. president barack obama wins re-election and in the end it wasn't even close. >> you made your voice heard. and you made a difference. >> with a gracious concession, republican challenger mitt romney made a humble request of both parties. >> to put the people before the politics. >> no republican has ever won the white house without ohio. >> in the